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Bug 11466 - Raised exception when trying to use NETSCAPE as external web browser
Summary: Raised exception when trying to use NETSCAPE as external web browser
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: ide
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Extbrowser (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: PC Windows ME/2000
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: _ rkubacki
URL:
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Reported: 2001-04-17 08:49 UTC by rsuarez
Modified: 2001-11-27 10:31 UTC (History)
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Description rsuarez 2001-04-17 08:49:43 UTC 
*********** Exception occurred ************
Tue Apr 17 09:41:14 CEST 2001: 
org.netbeans.modules.extbrowser.NbBrowserException: RegOpenKeyEx() failed.
org.netbeans.modules.extbrowser.NbBrowserException: RegOpenKeyEx() failed.
	at org.netbeans.modules.extbrowser.NbDdeBrowserImpl.getBrowserPath
(Native Method)
[catch] at org.netbeans.modules.extbrowser.NbDdeBrowserImpl.setURL
(NbDdeBrowserImpl.java:190)
	at org.netbeans.modules.extbrowser.NbDdeBrowserImpl.reloadDocument
(NbDdeBrowserImpl.java:157)
	at org.openide.awt.HtmlBrowser$1.run(HtmlBrowser.java:378)
	at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:154)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:317)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEvent
(EventDispatchThread.java:103)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:84)

NOTES: Works fine with IE Version 5.00.3103.1000
       Netscape Version installed: Version 4.5 [es]-98293
Comment 1 _ rkubacki 2001-04-25 14:05:02 UTC 
You can avoid this now by inserting path to your browser into your setting like
"C:\Program Files\Netscape\Communicator\Program\netscape.exe". Less cryptic
message is printed now. Also filled separate bug 11699.
Comment 2 Jan Chalupa 2001-05-05 22:14:40 UTC 
Target milestone -> 3.2
Comment 3 Jason Rush 2001-11-27 10:31:43 UTC 
Verified in Build 200111260100.